Timely dispatches from the southern Vermont and New Hampshire borderlands: a local community-radio talkie on WOOL-FM 91.5 every Wednesday night.

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Month: March 2017

Went on a bit of a good-natured tear on the differences and similarities between public and community radio during the open tonight. Good thing we’re not on a tight clock. I don’t normally post myself yapping, but this was fun and some folks may find it interesting.

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Got no plans for the show this week other than PSAs, papers, and playing stuff off the latest releases from The Devil Makes Three (Ruin & Redemption) and the DiTrani Brothers (self-titled, produced by Pete Bernhard of TDM3). Both so good!

As usual, it’ll also be open phones at 802-460-9665 ext 100, and open studio at 33 Bridge St in Bellow Falls. Wednesday night from 7 to 9. TDM3 or the DiTranis are welcome to call or come in, but both bands are on tour and I think they’re both out on the west coast somewhere, and I doubt either band keeps tabs on my show. I barely do myself. But in the absence of them, there’s more room for you. Gimme a jingle. Stop by with a Mountain Dew.

If I get desperate enough, I might rerun the in-studio with Pete Bernhard from just about a year ago in advance of his sold-out solo show with The Huntress & Holder Of Hands and O’Death at Next Stage in Putney. Since that’s a maybe, feel free to listen on your own now:

A nice exchange in the comments of that video:
“What is the song Pete plays at 10:15?”
“I’ve searched high and low, I’m 99% sure this is the only time he recorded it. Might be my favorite song by him too.﻿”

I did attempt to drum up a couple things, but the ball didn’t come back to me. If life had unfolded differently (as it already has in an alternate universe in which all of our lives are awesome), there might have been an interview with Ross Daly that would have been really, really cool. He’s playing Stone Church with Kelly Thoma on the 26th: Contemporary Modal Music.

And there might have been a conversation with Tara Greenblatt, who is heading up a big shindig at Mole Hill on the 25th with the Tara Greenblatt Band, Libby Kirkpatrick, Polly Wood, Briena Pearl, and Andrew Hannah that’s going to be an exceptional evening: Volition.

Ross or Tara are also most welcome to call or stop by if they wish. But they’re out on the west coast right now too for all I know.

Windham County Economic Development Program Project Manager RT Hamilton Brown joined us in the studio to talk about the help that’s out there for local businesses and entrepreneurs, and to share some thoughts about community development.